Windows 8’s standard configuration provides settings that many users like. However, you might want to change some of these settings. In this chapter, you learn how to connect and use an additional display, customize your desktop background and borders, run both a Windows 8 application and your desktop on a single display, manage your hardware, change default settings for media and media files, and add features to Windows.

This chapter is from the book

This chapter is from the book

Adding and Using an Additional Display

You can add an additional display by using a laptop’s video port or a second video port on a desktop computer that already has a display connected to it. You can use the additional display to duplicate the first display, but for normal use, you might prefer to set it up as an extended desktop. With an extended desktop, you can run different programs on each display. Here’s how to make it happen.

When you close a program after dragging it to an additional display, Windows remembers which display was last used for the program. When you open the program again, Windows uses the additional display to run the program.